A two-year suspension from the practice of law is appropriate for an attorney who became addicted to heroin and was caught with 10 bricks of it, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled.
But the court decided to allow George N. Sidiropolis to practice under probation for most of that time in recognition of “his hard-earned recovery and his dedication to his own sobriety and to that of others around him,” it said June 7 in a 4–1 opinion by Justice Evan H. Jenkins.
Under the sanctions, Sidiropolis, who practices in the area of insurance law in Wheeling, W. ...
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